| Stephen Gran on 27 Jul 2004 02:18:03 -0000 |
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:52:43PM -0400, Michael Leone said: > OK, I'm using Pan 0.14.2.91 (on a Debian Unstable system). > > Some things get posted to binary groups that I frequent (and no, it's > not pr0n :-) as multi-part rar archives, and others with associated > "par" files. I know the rar are compressed archives of a sort, and the > "par"s are parity files, so you can reconstruct a complete posting, even > if all parts don't show up. > > I'm also apparently an idiot, because i can't seem to get this to work. > :-) > > So I downloaded 63 rar files - file01.rar thru file63.rar. So how do I > "unrar" them properly? I thought it would be something like cat'ting the > parts back into 1 big file and "cat *.rar >bigfile.rar" and then "unrar > -x bigfile.rar", but that doesn't work; it failed on all 63 files. :-) > > I thought maybe just telling unrar to do "unrar -x file*.rar", but that > doesn't work either. (It seems to want a single archive file to work > from, but I could be wrong about that). So what simple thing am I > missing, to extract out the stuff I want from this archive? > > Next, if anybody knows how to tell Pan to do the extracting and decoding > for me (like it decodes yenc encoded files), I would really appreciate > it. I haven't found anything to suggest that it can, however. > > Nor have I found anything about how to use those "par" files with Pan. > I'd prefer Pan to handle all of it, if it could. If not, a pointer to a > HOWTO or tutorial would be helpful. I think 'rar a' does it, but it's been a while. Install rar (not the crippled GNU unrar), and take a look at rar.txt for all the messy details. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | <Overfiend> xhost +localhost should | | steve@lobefin.net | only be done by people who would | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | paint their hostname and root password | | | on an interstate overpass. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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